LAS CRUCES - The two New Mexico State University students reported missing earlier this week have been located in Idaho and are said to be in good condition, the Las Cruces Police Department reported in a news release

McKinnah Sinclair, 18, and Charlie Daniels, 19, were located by police Thursday morning in Nampa, Idaho, just west of Boise.

The release stated the LCPD detective in charge of the case learned that shortly after 11 a.m. Thursday, a Nampa police officer observed a red Ford Focus traveling 30 miles per hour below the posted speed limit on an interstate highway. The officer conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle driven by Daniels. Sinclair and Daniels were the only occupants of the vehicle.

The Idaho officer discovered the vehicle had a fictitious, or fake, license plate.

The Ford Focus the women were in belongs to the parents of Daniels, police said. However, the license plate at the time of the traffic stop in Idaho belongs to another vehicle. Police said investigators learned that the women intentionally switched plates before embarking on their interstate trip.

The Nampa Police Department officer who carried out the traffic stop opted not to charge Daniels for the fake license plate, according to that department.

Lt. Eric Skoglund of the Nampa Police Department said the vehicle in which the two were driving had been reported stolen.

"My understanding is the car belonged to one of their parents and was reported stolen, but because of the nature of the relationship and the circumstances surrounding that, that was not determined to be the case, so there are no charges here based on that," Skoglund told the Sun-News on Thursday afternoon.

After investigating the matter, the Nampa Police Department didn't detain the women further. Had they been minors — under the age of 18 — authorities could have detained them and notified parents to pick them up, but that wasn't the case, Skoglund said.

"We checked on their welfare, talked with them, talked with family and talked with the agency that reported them missing to let them know the status," he said. "So, that was the extent of our contact with them."

LCPD has learned that their families made arrangements to have the women returned to New Mexico.

Sinclair and Daniels attended the Rare El Paso hip-hop concert on Friday, Feb. 3, at the El Paso County Coliseum. Missing person affidavits were filed with LCPD Tuesday morning after the women failed to return home or contact family.

Sinclair and Daniels were captured on a surveillance camera Monday at an ATM in Beverly Hills, California. Police believe the women traveled to California and Idaho on their own, but failed to inform family or friends of their plans. Attempts to reach the women via cell phone or social media were ineffective and it appears the two were trying to keep their whereabouts unknown.

The driving distance from El Paso to Beverly Hills to Nampa is about 1,600 miles.

The Las Cruces Police Department received assistance on this case from various law enforcement agencies in New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, California, Nevada and Idaho.

According to Minerva Baumann, the director of media relations at NMSU, Daniels enrolled at the university in the fall of 2015 and is studying in kinesiology.

Sinclair enrolled at NMSU in the fall of 2016 and is majoring in pre-social work, Baumann said. Sinclair also is a member of the NMSU cheerleading squad.